Gnocchi alla sorrentina, gnocchi in the style of Sorrento, are a wonderfully simple Italian dish. Sorrento is a town near Naples and the dish itself seems to be a few hundred years old – some sources mention its existence even in the XVIth century! According to the legend, they were invented along with gnocchi themselves,…
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Pinđur 🇭🇷 🇧🇦 🇲🇰 🇷🇸 🇧🇬 🇭🇺
I have already written about ajvar, a close relative of pinđur. It is said to originate from Macedonia (North Macedonia 🇲🇰) as well, however the word pinđur is of Hungarian 🇭🇺 origin. Like the internationally better known ajvar, it is popular all over the Balkans, with many local variations, all containing pointy red peppers (crvena…
Zeytinyağlı taze fasulye 🇹🇷
Taze fasulye is the Turkish term for (broad and flat) green beans as well as dishes made with them in a tomato sauce. The zeytinyağlı, i.e. with olive oil, variant is a summer classic popular all over Türkiye. It is simple to make, healthy and inexpensive, is eaten lukewarm or cold as a meze or…
Tarte salée du printemps 🇫🇷
Spring, printemps in French… Time of colorful farmer’s markets with greens tempting even such convinced antivegetarians as myself. In my local Zagreb market the spring and early summer days are so colorful, that it is hard to resist buying things by colour – either more elegant all green, or a cheerful colour-mix. I did both,…
Cooker on the Orient Express 